Author Comments:

So, um, this page was a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I'm not terribly pleased with the second panel at all. The inking is embarrassingly sloppy, the lighting didn't turn out the way I'd have liked, and... well... seeing as how the whole joke of this page is the fact that the tree is too big I MAYBE SHOULDN'T HAVE STUCK A DIALOG BALLOON ON TOP OF THE THING. Well, given how this page is many hours late, you can guess why I didn't just redraw that part.

And yet, the top panel turned out GREAT! It's no secret that action poses aren't my strong suit, but Stilez kicking the door turned out EXACTLY the way I wanted it to. IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! ...that was quickly ruined, but still.

Also, there's a new Voting Incentive that also turned out better than I expected. See how many more variations I can put on the idea of Jenna in a princess dress!

User Comments:

@ Comic Pop Up Text: Wait, she camps INSIDE the mall? I thought that she'd take the tree and place it outside wherever she's currently living (her currently stolen Space Ship, for example). That way she can have multiple Christmas Trees.

@ Incentive: You sure that's not a Gender Bent "Zelda Link" as the princess who saves the kidnapped Hero of Wisdom? Because with the green, the sword and the shield, my first thought was "Zelda's Link. Wait, female, so Gender Bent".

@Seros Senric - That was my first thought too - how is that door not destroyed? Stilez exercising actual self-restraint? How could this be possible? A Christmas miracle? But of course it is because Tax is in the house, and could have been standing on the other side of the door.

Probably should not have asked Stilez "How are we going to get that into the house?" Once she makes sure Tax is in a safe location, she'll just rip the house in half and place the tree in the middle of it.

I kind of imagine that Stilez doesn't doesn't have enough of a concept of "living someplace" to do that kind of thing. She and Tax just go where they feel like going and stop wherever they wanna stop. So if they see something they like, such as a tree covered in shiny things, they'd just hang out there until they got tired of it.

But then, Stilez is so unpredictable, she COULD just up and decide to live in one spot for a while with no good reason. Really, anything goes with here (which is really convenient, since I don't have to think as hard about writing plot twists!)